Ed Schilling - Men's Basketball Coach - Indiana University Athletics

Ed Schilling

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
mbasket@indiana.edu
Phone:
(812) 855-2238

• Ed Schilling, a native of Lebanon, Indiana, is in his third season at Indiana after spending four years as an assistant coach at UCLA.

• Schilling has been part of a staff that produced the No. 7 recruiting class nationally in 2018 and been successful in luring in-state talent to Bloomington including McDonald’s All-Americans and Indiana Mr. Basketball winners Romeo Langford (2018) and Trayce Jackson-Davis (2019).

• Last season, the Hoosiers earned their first national ranking since 2017 and were rated as high as 21st in the country. IU finished with 19 wins and won two post season games in the NIT, beat four nationally ranked teams and also improved to 32nd in adjusted defense after finishing 65th in 2017-18. IU also finished 36th in the country in blocked shots.

• In four years on the coaching staff at UCLA, Schilling helped the Bruins compile a 96-45 overall record, including Sweet 16 appearances in 2014, 2015 and 2017. Additionally, his work on the recruiting helped UCLA secure three incoming classes that have been ranked in the top four nationally during his tenure.

• At UCLA, Schilling helped the Bruins’ program send seven players to the NBA. In the summer of 2015, Kevon Looney and Norman Powell were selected in the NBA Draft. Five players from UCLA’s team in 2013-14 ended up competing in the NBA – Jordan Adams, Kyle Anderson, Zach LaVine, David Wear and Travis Wear. In 2017, All-American guard Lonzo Ball and forward T.J. Leaf are projected to be first round picks.

• This past year, the Bruins finished 31-5 and led the nation in field goal percentage, assists and assist/turnover ratio. They were second in the country in scoring, fourth in three-point field goal percentage, sixth in scoring margin and eighth in three-point fields made. In 2014, UCLA won the Pac-12 Tournament Championship.

•Schilling arrived at UCLA in April 2013 after having spent the previous four seasons as head coach at Park Tudor High School in Indianapolis. He guided the Panthers to an 87-18 record in four years, securing two IHSAA Class 2A state titles and a runner-up finish.

• In 2012-13, Park Tudor won the Marion Court championship and broke the regular-season win record. In 2010-11 and 2011-12, Park Tudor made historic runs to win back-to-back IHSAA Class 2A state championship after having finished as runner-up in 2009-10. During that time, he coached and developed future Hoosier All-American Kevin Yogi Ferrell.

• In addition, Schilling spent time from May through September preparing athletes each year for professional basketball with St. Vincent’s Sports Performance and its NBA readiness program. His pre-draft preparation included working with over 60 high-profile young players, including No. 1 NBA Draft selection Greg Oden, Mike Conley, Mario Chalmers, Gordon Hayward, Carl Landry, Jeff Teague, Marquis Teague, Cody Zeller and many others.

• From 2007 to 2013, Schilling served as a head coach for Adidas Nations, coaching and training the Adidas High School All-American Team in national and international competition. In addition, he has served as executive director and trainer at Champions Academy, a not-for-profit basketball organization for youth and college-aged athletes in Indianapolis.

• Prior to his work with Adidas Nations and Champions Academy, Schilling had served as an assistant coach at Memphis for two seasons (2003-04, 2004-05) after having been the head coach at Wright State for six years (1998-2003). In his two seasons on staff at Memphis, the Tigers compiled a 44-24 record.

• In his first season (2003-04) as an assistant coach at Memphis working alongside head coach John Calipari, Schilling helped the Tigers to their first conference championship since 1995-96 and an NCAA Tournament appearance.

• Schilling arrived at Memphis after a six-year run as the head coach at Wright State. Among the biggest wins in program history occurred Dec. 30, 1999, when Wright State defeated then-No. 6 and future national champion Michigan State, 53-49.

• In his fourth season at Wright State the Raiders opened the season with a 9-1 record, their best Division I start in school history. Wright State closed the season with an 18-11. That season, Schilling was named 2001 MCC Coach of the Year by CollegeInsider.com. In 2001-02, the Raiders defeated No. 20-ranked Butler in double overtime on the road in Hinkle Fieldhouse, 90-87.

• Schilling was a member of Calipari’s coaching staff at UMass along with fellow Hoosier assistant Bruiser Flint during the 1995-96 season. That year, the Minutemen advanced to the Final Four and posted a 35-2 overall record.

• When Calipari was named the vice president of basketball operations and basketball coach with the New Jersey Nets, Schilling joined him as an assistant coach (1996-97). His rise in the coaching profession was chronicled in Sports Illustrated, as he became the only coach to advance from the high school coaching ranks to the Final Four and then to the bench of an NBA team in a period of 310 days. At that time, Schilling was the youngest assistant coach on the bench in the NBA.

• After graduating from Miami (Ohio) in the spring of 1988, Schilling served as a high school head coach for the next seven years – three years (1989-91) at Western Boone High School in Thorntown, Ind., and four years (1992-95) as head coach at Logansport High School in Logansport, Ind.

• Schilling was a four-year starting point guard at Miami from 1985-88. He was a two-time captain and, playing alongside Ron Harper, helped lead the school to a pair of NCAA Tournament berths. He was a three-time academic all-conference selection and is still the single-game assist record holder in the Mid-American Conference. He also established single-game, season and career assist records at Miami, all of which are still standing.

• Schilling, 51, has also co-authored two books – Guard Play, co-authored by Steve Alford, and Five Star Basketball, which was written with Howard Garfinkel. Schilling has four daughters, Christiana, Natalie, Ava and Callie, and one son, Edmund Cross (Eddie). Schilling and his wife, April, have two daughters – Ava and Callie.